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What are you listening to? Part III
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I Hear You Breathing In - Eleanor McEvoy - A Woman's Heart.
After The Ball - Frances Black - A Woman's Heart.
After The Ball - Frances Black - A Woman's Heart.
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Agree. But this is probably my favourite.The Killers.
Big thumbs up from me.
They had some great songs.
Listening to soundtracks of films scored by Alexandre Desplat this afternoon.... music I can appreciate but not get so distracted that I slack off some more work on UnFinishedObjects in the studio. Selections are from The Painted Veil, The Special Relationship, Syriana, The Queen, and Girl with a Pearl Earring.
PS. I didn't ask Siri about any of these, but
thanks for the heads up.
Listening to soundtracks of films scored by Alexandre Desplat this afternoon.... music I can appreciate but not get so distracted that I slack off some more work on UnFinishedObjects in the studio. Selections are from The Painted Veil, The Special Relationship, Syriana, The Queen, and Girl with a Pearl Earring.
PS. I didn't ask Siri about any of these, but
To my mind, the soundtrack of Grand Hotel Budapest is also excellent, and I am also partial to the soundtrack of Fantastic Mr Fox.
An absolutely brilliant track; indeed, an absolutely brilliant album.
That's probably for the best; Siri is just broken enough to be interesting.[…] PS. I didn't ask Siri about any of these, but
I'm waiting to find out that Siri actually achieved sapience in 2014-ish, and all of these misheard requests are actually just fledgling efforts to communicate. Considering the song it… responded to was called "Save Me," I don't think this bodes well for the poor AI.
I remember liking the Madison Square track from that album...
The first Lettuce I ever heard was the Double Header track, from their album Lost In Flight (The Fly Outtakes).
That sold me in on their musicianship and I started exploring for more. Their whole story is a nice reminder that great things can spin off a bunch of strangers just happening to meet up someplace. Original band members met as teens in a summer class offered by Berklee Music Conservatory. All had slightly different backgrounds in music that had shaped their own performance characteristics. Met up again after a few years apart and have been giving a hat tip to all the great funk artists ever since, losing and adding only a couple players, and causing their band to land in the 'great funk' category itself.
On Siri and hunting for things:
I've had my moments with Siri. I still have hope but I let others be beta testers now.
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Listening to Philip Glass, piano etudes. They were written to improve his own piano technique. Twenty works, written over about twenty years,,,, in performance they run to about two hours of a stunning evolution. Maki Namekawa the pianist. Apple Music.
Perfect for gloomy introspective thoughts and days.
Lovely.
Philip Glass has been part of my life's soundtrack ever since I first heard his music while at university… ah so young and full of vim and vigour.
Recently, I was very fortunate to see both him and Laurie Anderson a couple years ago performing on a rainy night in Norwich (Norwich of all places!).
He played a few of the Etudes… and Laurie Anderson joined in with an improvisation with her electric violin…
After the concert I phoned my husband and I could barely speak I was sobbing so much… out of sheer joy, sheer sadness, a visceral thrill, having experienced them both live perhaps for the last time.
Anyway! Later this month we are off to go and hear Akhenaten performed by the ENO at the Coliseum.
Chameleon music for me… adapts to my moods. Lying on the sofa with a glass of wine and the cat snoring on my lap, staring out a window as the snow falls… great stuff.
Great post.
You're most fortunate to have had the privilege of hearing him play live - I'd have loved that.
But, yes, agreed, absolutely, he does get you in the gut - at that visceral emotional level, joy and sorrow both, and something that is epic and transcendental as well.
I haven't listened to him for a while; I think I would be in bits - it has only been seven weeks (today) since my mother passed away - if I thought to play him. So, yes, I do get the sobbing - completely.
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Actually, for now, I think I will reserve playing Philip Glass to the privacy of my study.
Our reserved society might have difficulty with a grown woman bawling her eyes out - or smothering sniffles - on a train.
But, someday soon, Philip Glass it will be.
Our reserved society might have difficulty with a grown woman bawling her eyes out - or smothering sniffles - on a train.
But, someday soon, Philip Glass it will be.
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More my take on it too, although there have been a few times in my life I've listened to some of those etudes to become a little more grounded in reality than wherever some deep grief had taken me. I ended up visualizing how to play some of the stuff while I was listening. That reminded me that even if I would never give Glass' etudes a shot on the piano, I was more capable in life than to just continue dissolving towards hopelessness or wherever I was going then in my vale of tears.